The Descendants Quotes

  • Mark Mitchell: This is a unique and dramatic situation!

  • Matt King: [voice-over] Paradise? Paradise can go fuck itself.

  • Matt King: What is it that makes the women in my life destroy themselves?

  • Matt King: Elizabeth is dying. Wait... Fuck you! And she's dying.

  • Scott Thorson: It's ironic, Elizabeth in this misfortune just as you come into your fortune.

  • Sid: [on Scott] That guy is a prick. Is he always like that?

    Matt King: Yeah.

  • Matt King: [to Elizabeth] Goodbye, Elizabeth. Goodbye, my love, my friend, my pain, my joy. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

  • Matt King: You little fuck! Do you get hit a lot?

    Sid: I don't know, I've had my share.

    Matt King: [to Alex] Your friend is completly retarded, you know that?

    Sid: Hey man, I've got a little brother who's retarded! Don't use that word in derogatory fashion.

    Matt King: Oh.

    Sid: [laughing] No I don't have a retarded brother!

    Alexandra King: Sid, you suck!

  • Matt King: On the phone he can escape, in person, he's got nowhere to go. I wanna see his face.

  • Matt King: One more question for you.

    Brian Speer: Yes?

    Matt King: Ever been inside my bedroom?

    Brian Speer: Once.

    Matt King: You could have had the decency to lie about that one.

    Brian Speer: Alright, twice.

  • Matt King: I don't want my daughters growing up entitled and spoiled. And I agree with my father - you give your children enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing.

  • Matt King: Nothing just happens!

    Brian Speer: Everything just happens.

  • Alexandra King: Hey, Scottie! Raina's a fucked-up hoe-bag and you need to stay away from her! And she's going to be a meth-head and she's gonna get used by stupid guys! She's a twat! Say it!

  • Matt King: [voice-over] Don't be fooled by appearances. In Hawaii, some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen.

  • [first lines]

    Matt King: My friends on the mainland think just because I live in Hawaii, I live in paradise. Like a permanent vacation. We're all just out here sipping Mai Tais, shaking our hips, and catching waves. Are they insane?

  • Matt King: I'm the backup parent. The understudy.

  • Matt King: I'm worried about my daughters. I think there's something wrong with them.

  • Alexandra King: When I was over at Christmas, I caught her with the guy.

    Alexandra King: It made me sick to see her near you.

    Alexandra King: I went back to school thinking that that was it... that I was just done with her.

    Alexandra King: I was gonna call and tell you everything, and... and then the accident happened, and... I was waiting until she woke up, I guess.

    Alexandra King: You didn't even suspect.

    Alexandra King: Right?

    Alexandra King: Right?

    Alexandra King: You disgusted me too.

    Alexandra King: You're always so busy.

  • Matt King: Hey, I'm doing you a favor. I could go out there and fuck you up, so get a better attitude!

  • Alexandra King: Did you just spank me ?

  • Matt King: You are about 100 miles from smart... no offense

    Sid: You are mistaken counselor; I'm smart, you know, I have good hygiene; I'm a decent guitar player; I'm a good cook, I mean I cook food all the time; I'm Vice President of the Punahou chess club; and I always have weed.

    Matt King: Your mother must be very proud.

    Sid: It's possible.

  • Matt King: It's this a bad timing?

    Kai Mitchell: Uh, no, no, we're just fighting.

  • Scottie King: Shut up, you motherless whore.

    Sid: Whoa! Whoa! Easy there, half pipe.

    Matt King: Where'd you learn to talk like that?

    [Scottie points to Alex. Matt and Sid give Alex a look]

  • Alexandra King: When I was over at Christmas, I caught her with the guy. It made me sick to see her near you. I went back to school thinking that that was it... that I was just done with her. I was gonna call and tell you everything, and... and then the accident happened, and... I was waiting until she woke up, I guess. You didn't even suspect. Right? Right? You disgusted me too. You're always so busy.

  • Scottie King: I don't like eggs.

    Matt King: Why didn't you say so before I made them?

    Scottie King: I thought they were for you.

    Matt King: Good morning. Does Mom let you have Coke for breakfast?

    Alexandra King: I'm pretty sure it's after eleven. Now that we get a closer look, we might recognize Alexandra from the postcards at the hospital. We also see a resemblance to her mother.

    Matt King: How are you feeling? Hangover, huh? Why am I not surprised? I don't know where to start, and we probably shouldn't in front of Scottie.

    Scottie King: I don't mind.

    Matt King: I thought you were supposed to be getting your act together.

    Alexandra King: I have gotten my act together. I was just drinking. I've been doing really well, but nobody ever seems to notice my grades are better, and how I was in that stupid play you guys didn't bother to see. Do you even remember the name of it? That's what I thought. So what if I got drunk on the ONE night you happened to drop in? So the fuck what?

    Matt King: Hey, hey, hey. Watch your language in front of Scottie.

    Scottie King: I'm okay.

    Matt King: Anyway, it's good to see you. Welcome home. Want some eggs?

    Alexandra King: How long do I have to stay?

    Matt King: We'll discuss that.

    Alexandra King: I'm going swimming.

    Matt King: Then I'll join you.

  • Matt King: A family seems exactly like an archipelago. All part of the same whole, but still separate and alone and always drifting slowly apart.

The Descendants

Director: Alexander Payne

Language: English Release date: December 9, 2011